There is no need for a title to this post for it is more of a citation than an update on life happenings. This has absolutely nothing to do with the topic of the post, it has to do with foundations of this Blog and the original rules of participation. If you look to the second post on this Blog you can find the original three rules that were written at the beginning to order the maintenance of the Blog by us the eleven class mates. The third and final rule says :

"Rule 3) No erasing other people's posts, it's just not nice."


It can't get much simpler than that, and this is certainly not up for debate. I was the author of the now absent post published the 18th of July 2006. I was not the person who removed said post so it stands to reason, unless the account information has been given to parties outside of the original eleven, that one of us has broken this rule. It may have been in an effort to stop "needless arguments" or it may have been because some person was too offended by opinions of others involved, the reason is entirely irrelevant. You may stay hidden if you so choose, or you may reveal yourself, at this point neither action would surprise me. What has surprised me is that one of us has decided that they know better than the other ten and they believe this gives them the right to flagrantly disregard the rules of the Blog. The point of a free debate forum is that all opinions can be stated without needing the approval of the majority much less one or two individuals. This isn't Communist China, it is not for others to decide what one person thinks and says, no matter how misguided or incorrect one party may deem another. I'm a little disappointed that it's come to this. What is now to stop others from using profane language? It was a rule just like the others. Why couldn't I just decide that because I think I know better I can spew curse words through all my posts and comments? We are supposed to be these smart, polite, intelligent, classically trained people, what does it say about us that our Rhetoric leads us to ignoring and erasing opinions just because we don't like them? That's a rhetorical question, the point of all this is that the actions taken to erase the controversial post were completely against the rules of the Blog and if such behaviour continues it only means that the Blog as it was meant to be is dead and useless, and violaters will be removed.

-Joel Buck

Breaking news!

So I went done to Eugene this weekend to visit a friend ended up cutting my hair! The bottom two feet will soon be made into a wig for cancer patients. Its pretty weird, considering the last time I had short hair was when I was like eight...but I like it. I have been thinking about it for a long time and it was so gosh darn hot this weekend that I finally had the guts to do it. The lady who did it was really funny, she said my hair just wanted this haircut, because most people she has to texture it and stuff but mine was very well behaved. So anyway I thought I would share it with you all.

(This is a before picture)

Pride & Prejudice - Harry Potter Style

Ummm...okay. I have been trying and trying to find a vid worthy of our blog. Now...some may find this offensive (In a good way, I assure) but hopefully most will find it humerous. What is it? Well, one of the most popular things to do on youtube is take 1 movie's tailer and use clips from another movie that match. I believe this is one of the best I've seen. If, however, it is not well received...it shall be removed.

19th Birthday

My 19th birthday is approaching, and likely it will be the last chance our class has to get together before college. Therefore if anyone has any suggestions of things they would like to do, etc. that would be wonderful. I do have some ideas, and likely it will be at my house... but it will be more of our party than my party.

Zidane

Okay, if you saw the World Cup, you saw this. If not...this is the star of the French team....losing it.

Tethany 2006

Here's the Maid of Honor, Jenna. I know...She's pretty much a model, I've known her forever and come close to marrying her myself a number of times


















Here they are at the altar. They had friends read different things like Bible passages, poems, and Jenna (see above) read out of Bethany's journal from when she was 15 and she was all like "Oh I have such a crush on Ted, I hope it doesn't last" or something like that. It was so funny.













Here she is putting the ring on his finger. They had her Promise ring put into the center of his ring so if you look at the inside you can see the band of gold that she used to wear.














This one pretty much explains itself. They were like this for fifteen seconds. count that out, it's a long time, I was like Ok moving on.














Aren't they so cute? they served the Meat at the beginning of the reception in their little aprons.














Ted's a child at heart I think, this is the head table (lacking the presence of yours truly I might add)













Here's them cutting their little cake. There was other stuff for the guests, but this was theirs.












This was right before they left, pretty much my sister's married now











This is them leaving, they were going to go see my Grandpa before they left for the Honeymoon, he had a mild heart attack two days ago and couldn't come to the wedding. We had a web cam though, and we taped it for him.













This is them making their gettaway to the undisclosed Honeymoon location. (By the way, Undisclosed only means they didn't tell anyone, but I have my ways of knowing things I shouldn't...Let's just say nothing gets past The Ambassador, that's me.)